Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Nightshade711]

The real leak is that all of the old gods are coming back at once
Eventually

[Frood]

I haven't read the past couple of pages, and I don't know if any of this is new, but I'll leave it here anyway. There's a total of 360 possible combinations, 261 of which are shown, leaving out a set of 99 combinations. The pattern suggests that the shown combinations have been chosen deliberately. There's also some relevant metadata in the original file, e.g. "Wrathion" and "The flight is rising, evoker is real."

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Well the OG intention was to make the Dragon Isles (The home of Lexie and not much else) separate from the island of elven dragon riders near Azuremyst. So yeah we may have several hidden dragon places.

I mean if we had several hidden "dragon places" I'd be down for that. More lore about how the Dragonflights came into being in general would be more interesting than just "come here, swear to us, and help us get our fertility back."

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Okay did I walk into the Kingdom Hearts thread instead why are we all freaking out about a bunch of random letters? Did Blizz post that or is this some "leak" that's almost certainly fake?

[Deventh]

Did Blizz post that or is this some "leak" that's almost certainly fake?

The latter.

[Chickat]

Well no, what I'm saying is that if there's a new class in 10.0, and Alexstraza is on the cover, then the next class is going to be based on that character from the RTS/MOBA complete with her ability set from that sources. It has always worked that way.

Examples;



We got Death Knights based on the Lich King and the DKs RTS abilities.



We got Monks based on Chen Stormstout and the Brewmaster's RTS abilities.




We got Demon Hunters based on Illidan and the DH's RTS abilities.


So it stands to reason that if Alexstraza is on the cover of the next expansion and we're getting a class, it's going to be based on her and get her MOBA abilities.

Just like if Gazlowe somehow ends up on the cover instead, we're getting a Tinker class.

I'm sure they would have some of her abilities, but they aren't gonna make a class based on just red dragons. It's gonna be all or nothing.

[ercarp]

Here's the complete text written down if anyone needs to copy it for some reason:

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For the record, I'm also leaning towards this being some sort of cryptogram/cipher. I found this site that has a ton of different encryption methods and some of them can be used to get similar results.

I played around with some of them for like half an hour but I couldn't get ANY sensible results. But that could just be because I don't understand what I'm looking at.

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I haven't read the past couple of pages, and I don't know if any of this is new, but I'll leave it here anyway. There's a total of 360 possible combinations, 261 of which are shown, leaving out a set of 99 combinations. The pattern suggests that the shown combinations have been chosen deliberately. There's also some relevant metadata in the original file, e.g. "Wrathion" and "The flight is rising, evoker is real."

I had no idea there was metada in the image. Huh. Beyond that I have no idea what any of this is supposed to mean and it's making my head hurt.

EDIT: The cipher identifier on the above site seems to think the most likely tool used to make this was a "Collon Cipher".

[Amstrup]

could use another 4chan leak right now.

[Leowyld]

I want to solve this because, if it is not real, we will *know* Scales has been messing with us when the actual info releases. Or if somehow it matches up... it will be interesting. Evoker, for instance. That is really kinda out there as far as a class guess goes. It's different than what I'd seen thrown around the past months. So, if that ends up being the class (which I doubt, of course), well, that will be something. Heh.

[Chickat]

Good Evening! We are inching closer and closer. Soon, everyone. Soon!

How's the mood at blizzard right now? Y'all excited?

[Frood]

I had no idea there was metada in the image. Huh. Beyond that I have no idea what any of this is supposed to mean and it's making my head hurt.

Not only that—the entire text layer is hiding in the file as well. I'm sorry you had to go through typing it out by hand!

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There's also a second (hidden) layer with 522 entries, which is a bit odd.

[Chickat]

Yeah, I think its a combo of mods doing a great job (kudos to them as you said) and the regulars here being annoyed by it and reporting as soon as we see it!

On another topic I leave for a 1.5h evening walk and come back to like 5+ new pages xD I love this thread in the EU evening hours.

Yeah I think this forum is bigger in the eu. It's active but way quieter when I'm awake. We get 6 pages while I'm active, I go to sleep and wake up to 20.

[ercarp]

Not only that—the entire text layer is hiding in the file as well. I'm sorry you had to go through typing it out by hand!

I didn't type it by hand, hehe. That would be insane. I used Google Translate's built-in text recognizer thing and just copy-pasted it.

[Chickat]

Now look what you’ve done
Now people are gonna use that to say “See they added Tinkers after an April fools joke before surely they’ll do it again”

Though it would be hilarious if they DID announce tinkers for next xpac despite the xpac being dragon themed.

Teriz is actually really good and presenting a full picture for his ideas. I used to be anti tinker but I've come around. I'd still rather have a dragon class but I'd for sure be happy with tinker too.

[Ferlion]

Do we know the name of the titan facility in the Eternal Palace referred to as The Last Prison (Nzoths prison)?

Sooo.. This is a bit of a head canon thing..

It's something that gets overlooked, but Kalimdor is Titanic for "Land of Eternal Starlight."
Kaldorei is translated into Night Elf, but from what we know of Kal, they should technically be called "Star Elves".

With the Prison being called "Circle of Stars", the facility should be something akin to "Kaldir".

Which of course, is awfully close to Kvaldir. Who I bet we are going to see end up being retconned away from just Vykrul ghosts and they come from the same facility that the Eternal Palace was built on.

[Chickat]

Hear me out
Backpack is like a fancy dragon incubator with an egg
Pet is a drakonid but like Daisy if you do an emote it hops on your back

Backpack is different colors of a tinker backpack. Mount up and the backpack transforms you into a small hellicopter transformer style. @Teriz

[justMaku]

<rdf:li>Wrathion</rdf:li>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Evoker is real.</rdf:li>

From the flightrising.jpeg file

[Chickat]

Anyone else expecting absolutely nothing cool. (not even a new race/class) but hoping for some of the stuff being speculated about?

Gotta temper those expectations

I'm expecting shadowlands. It with dragons. No class or race. Anything more will make me content. Anything less might make me quit. If we get a world revamp with races and a class I'll do backflips.

[klaussf]

is this a fake pre-order? or real

instant-gaming.com/en/10713-buy-world-of-warcraft-dragonflight-pc-game/

[leothar]

is this a fake pre-order? or real

instant-gaming.com/en/10713-buy-world-of-warcraft-dragonflight-pc-game/

The logo is certainly fake. The top half is just the BfA logo unchanged.

[justMaku]

Actually it's

XP Title : Evoker is real.
XP Comment : A little cleverness will come in handy in this puzzle.
XP Author : Wrathion
XP Subject : Dragonflight